Brothers in Arms Preview

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GameSpot shot up a preview of Brothers in Arms, the forthcoming cross-platform World War II flavored first person shooter from Gearbox Software:

As Pitchford explained, the team wanted to get away from the standard gameplay found in most first-person shooters in which the player's job is merely to react to the presence of the enemy. In those games, you usually run around a level until you stumble on some bad guys--then you just shoot them. In Brothers in Arms, your job will be to think much more proactively; in essence, you'll need to evaluate the battlefield as a real squad leader would and then direct your fire teams to maximize their effectiveness. Or, as the US Army describes it, you'll have to use the "four F's": find the enemy, fix the enemy in position with suppression fire, flank the enemy, and then finish the enemy off.